It's time for a grown up to run the Department of Energy.
Just The News (1/16/25) reports: "The confirmation hearing Wednesday for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary, Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright, gave the oil executive an opportunity to clarify his views on energy and climate. 'Energy is the essential agent of change that enables everything that we do — everything. A low-energy society is poor. A highly energized society can bring health, wealth and opportunity for all,' Wright said in his opening statement. Over two-and-a-half hours of questions, Wright testified on his vision, if he’s confirmed, for fossil fuels, nuclear, wind, solar and geothermal. He also discussed his position on carbon capture and other emission-reduction policies, nuclear waste disposal, and appliance efficiency standards...'I sit in front of you today…because President elect Trump shares a passion for energy and an instinctual understanding that energy is not a sector of the economy. It's the sector of the economy that enables everything else we do,' Wright said. Wright also expressed support for oil and gas development. He said that when he was born 60 years ago, 80% of primary energy came from 'hydrocarbons,' another term for fossil fuels. 'Today, total global primary energy is sort of low to mid 80% so global demand for energy has grown a lot. We brought a lot of new energy technologies along, thankfully, or we wouldn't have as much energy as we have today, but it's proven very hard to displace hydrocarbons in the global energy system,' Wright said."
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